2015 Moto2 season


The 2015 Moto2 season was a part of the 67th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc VDS Racing Team rider Esteve Rabat started the season as the defending riders' champion, having won his first championship title in 2014.
Rabat had been trailing by 78 points going to the Japanese Grand Prix. However, he had to withdraw from the event with a fractured left radius. Therefore, Johann Zarco became World Champion – the ninth different world champion in the intermediate class in as many years. Ajo Motorsport rider Zarco won eight races during the season – to become the most successful French rider in Grand Prix racing – and with a tally of 352 points, set a record points total for the intermediate class; surpassing Rabat's 346 from 2014. With Rabat missing three races due to injury, rookie Álex Rins moved ahead in the standings, and despite Rabat winning the final race in Valencia, Rins finished second to seal the runner-up spot by three points. Rins won two races at Indianapolis, and Phillip Island, while Rabat added his Valencia success to wins at Mugello and Motorland Aragón.
On one of the few non-Kalex motorcycles on the grid, Sam Lowes finished fourth in the championship for Speed Up, taking a race win at Circuit of the Americas, holding off Derendinger Racing Interwetten's Thomas Lüthi, who won at Le Mans. The season's only other race winners were Jonas Folger, who won at Losail and Jerez for the AGR Team, and Xavier Siméon, who took his first win for Gresini Racing at the Sachsenring. Kalex comfortably won the manufacturers' championship; they won 17 of the season's 18 races, with only Lowes' success at Circuit of the Americas stopping a clean sweep of victories. Speed Up finished second in the championship, with 209 points to Kalex's 445.
The 2015 season was the last year that Eni was the sole fuel supplier for Moto2, as Total became the championship's fuel supplier in 2016.

Grands Prix

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released an 18-race official calendar on 26 September 2014.
RoundDateGrand PrixCircuit
129 March Commercial Bank Grand Prix of QatarLosail International Circuit, Doha
212 April Red Bull Grand Prix of the AmericasCircuit of the Americas, Austin
319 April Gran Premio Red Bull de la República ArgentinaAutódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero
43 May Gran Premio bwin de EspañaCircuito de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera
517 May Monster Energy Grand Prix de FranceLe Mans Bugatti
631 May Gran Premio d'Italia TIMMugello Circuit, Mugello
714 June Gran Premi Monster Energy de CatalunyaCircuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló
827 June Motul TT AssenTT Circuit Assen, Assen
912 July GoPro Motorrad Grand Prix DeutschlandSachsenring, Hohenstein-Ernstthal
109 August Red Bull Indianapolis Grand PrixIndianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis
1116 August bwin Grand Prix České republikyMasaryk Circuit, Brno
1230 August Octo British Grand PrixSilverstone Circuit, Silverstone
1313 September Gran Premio TIM di San Marino e della Riviera di RiminiMisano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico
1427 September Gran Premio Movistar de AragónMotorland Aragón, Alcañiz
1511 October Grand Prix of JapanTwin Ring Motegi, Motegi
1618 October Australian Grand PrixPhillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island
1725 October Malaysian Motorcycle Grand PrixSepang International Circuit, Selangor
188 November Gran Premio de la Comunitat ValencianaCircuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia

Calendar changes

A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 23 October 2014. An updated entry list was released on 2 February 2015. All Moto2 competitors raced with an identical CBR600RR inline-four engine developed by Honda. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.

Rider changes

Grands Prix

Riders' standings

Manufacturers' standings

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